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Investigation continues into apparent murder-suicide

Police are investigating what authorities believe is a murder-suicide involving a man and a woman who lived together at a home on Hutchinson Street in Nashua.

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Updated: 7:08 AM EST Dec 1, 2014

Investigation continues into apparent murder-suicide

Police are investigating what authorities believe is a murder-suicide involving a man and a woman who lived together at a home on Hutchinson Street in Nashua.

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Updated: 7:08 AM EST Dec 1, 2014

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WEBVTT FROM THE TRAFFIC NETWORK, I'M SUZANNE ROANTREE FOR 95.7 WZID. AUTOPSIES ARE BEING PERFORMED TODAY ON THE BODIES OF TWO PEOPLE INVOLVED IN AN APPARENT MURDER-SUICIDE IN NASHUA. ON SATURDAY NIGHT, THEY DISCOVERED A WOMAN'S BODY ON THE BRIDGE. THEY BELIEVE SHE WAS KILLED BY HER BOYFRIEND WHO LATER TOOK HIS OWN LIFE. AUDREY COX JOINS US LIVE IN NASHUA WITH THE LATEST DETAILS. GOOD MORNING, AUDREY. GOOD MORNING. THIS SITUATION UNFOLDED AT TWO DIFFERENT LOCATIONS HERE IN NASHUA. AUTHORITIES SAY IT STARTED AROUND 10:45 SATURDAY NIGHT WHEN TWO DRIVERS SPOTTED THE BODY OF A WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE. INVESTIGATORS QUICKLY DETERMINED SHE WAS THE VICTIM OF A HOMICIDE. THE DISCOVERY OF A WOMAN'S BODY ON THE BRIDGE SATURDAY NIGHT LED POLICE TO A HOME ON HUTCHINSON STREET. THE MAN WAS BELIEVED TO BE INSIDE THE HOME REFUSING TO COME OUT. THE CALL CAME IN A MAN HAD A GUN AND WAS THREATENING TO HARM HIMSELF. THEY WENT THERE AND TRIED TO CONVINCE THE MALE TO COME OUT. HE REFUSED. THEY TRIED TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE MAN INSIDE. TEAR GAS WAS FIRED. WHEN POLICE ENTERED, THEY FOUND THE MAN DEAD FROM AN APPARENT SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND. I WAS REALLY SHOCKED. I WAS COMING HOME AND GOING OVER THE BRIDGE. THEY WOULDN'T LET ME THROUGH. LATER ON I FOUND OUT IT WAS A COUPLE THAT WE KNEW FROM DOWN THE STREET. INVESTIGATORS SAY THE MAN AND WOMAN WERE IN A LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP SOME 20-25 YEARS. THEY WERE NOT MARRIED. SENIOR ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS THEY WERE OUT WITH FRIENDS SATURDAY NIGHT. THEY LEFT THE GROUP AT SOME POINT. WHEN THOSE FRIENDS LATER WENT TO THE HOME, THEY REALIZED SOMETHING WAS WRONG. THEY WERE FRIENDS OF HIS. THEY WERE SPEAKING TO HIM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THE MISSING FEMALE WAS. AS TIME WENT ON TO BE ABLE TO START TO PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER AND BECOME CONCERNED. THEY ENDED UP LEAVING ON THEIR OWN. IT IS KIND OF SAD. THEY WERE A QUIET COUPLE. AT THIS TIME INVESTIGATORS ARE NOT RELEASING THE NAMES OF THE MAN AND WOMAN. THEY CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THEIR DEATH.

Investigation continues into apparent murder-suicide

Police are investigating what authorities believe is a murder-suicide involving a man and a woman who lived together at a home on Hutchinson Street in Nashua.